We owe special thanks to those who supported us in our daily work for iGEM, always listened to our problems, spent their time helping us and made the work of this year’s iGEM team Aachen possible.
Also, very special thanks to Prof. Lars M. Blank, Prof. Ulrich Schwaneberg and Prof. Wolfgang Wiechert for making our project possible and providing us with their expertise as well as resources and lab-space! Detailed information regarding their effort for us can be found here (link to supervisors).

Science

Barrick Lab: The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, for sending us parts which were essential for our project.
Volkan Besirlioglu, for helping us with the measurement via flowcytometry and always being available for questions.
Dr. Cornelius Bessler, for sharing his knowledge with us and helping us by finding good literature for our topic.
Dr. Marco Bocola, for helping us planning our project and working on the theory to make a big part of our project possible by showing us how to model our synthetases.
Dr. Jochen Büchs, for his feedback on our project and for helping us with measurement by letting us use his devices and obtaining our screening conditions.
Dr. Thomas Drepper, for his tour through the institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich where he is working in and for the offering of his support.
Brigitta Ehrt, for her technical support, for providing materials for our work and for being available whenever we had questions.
Michael Hammerling, for answering questions regarding the project of iGEM Team Texas 2014 and being the person of contact for the Barrick Lab.
Kalle Hüser, for giving us a lab instruction.
iGEM Austin Texas 2014 for sending us their plasmids and answering a lot of project related questions.
Dr. Felix Jakob, for giving us information about subtilisin structure and advice in modeling.
Bianca Klein, for helping us to analyze our non-canonical amino acid with the mass spectrometry.
Dr. Dietrich Kohlheyer, for his tour through the institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich and for offering his support.
Georgette Körfer, for introducing us to gathering data with the Tecan Plate reader and helping us with fluorescence measurements.
Christoph Lenzen, for advice in working with the picking robot in the iAMB.
Dr. Jan Marienhagen, for his tour through the institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, for offering his support and for recommending us for DECHEMA.
Dr. Alan Mertens, for giving us instructions in laboratory devices and for being our person of contact regarding human practices.
Dr. Dennis Mishler, for answering questions about non-canonical amino acid.
Akshay Mogarkar, for helping us with building the dark bench.
Jordan Monk, for being our person of contact of the iGEM Texas Team 2014.
Dr. Meike Niggemann, for being available for answering our questions regarding chemical reactions.
Dr. Stefan Noack, for his tour through the institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich and for arranging the measurement with the mass spectrometry.
Dr. Richard Ottermanns, for helping us with data evaluation and giving us useful tips and hints. Dr. Jörg Pietruszka, for suggesting literature regarding our project.
Dr. Johannes Schiffels, for helping us searching necessary materials for our work.
Dr. Daniel Summerer, for giving us information about tRNA synthetase specific for our non-canonical amino acid and S. cerevisiae.
Bastian Tweddell, for his technical support.
Dr. Ljubica Vojcic, for her advice in planning our project idea.
Georg Wandrey, for helping us with measurement and giving us general microbiological advice.
Alexandra Weingartner, for answering a lot of questions about photocaging especially regarding screening conditions and incorporating our non-canonical amino acid.
Dr. Birgit Wiltschi, for sharing her knowledge about photocaging and genetic code expansion with us.
Benedikt Wynands, for advice in working with the picking robot in the iAMB.
Dr. Martin Zimmermann, for giving us a safety instruction (and more information about our project work).